2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Mining Engineering is the 306th most popular major in the country with 314 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, mining engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $69,426 and had an average of $26,873 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 62 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,406 and $28,744 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 mining engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mining engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their mining engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree mining engineering students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Mining Engineering in the Southeast Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a public institution located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Mining Engineering at Virginia Tech
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. West Virginia University is located in Morgantown, West Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s mining engineering degrees to qualified students.
Full WVU Mining Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Mining Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. University of Kentucky is located in Lexington, Kentucky and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s mining engineering degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Mining Engineering at University of Kentucky
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References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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